Dairy Pricing Association wants to negotiate milk prices

Yet another group is proposing a way to fix low milk prices. The Dairy Pricing Association is a new organization that wants to increase milk prices by banding together to negotiate with co-ops for higher milk prices. A lot of other industries negotiate prices for the products they sell, and the thought is dairy producers — if they join together — could too. If processors refused to pay a higher price, DPA members would withhold milk and be paid a minimum price from DPA’s member assessments of 10 cents per hundredweight.